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Han Woo-jin, Head of Smilegate AI Center (left), and Lim Tae-geon, Executive Director of Naver Cloud, are taking a commemorative photo after signing a memorandum of understanding at the Smilegate headquarters. (Photo by Smilegate)

Smilegate AI Center announced on the 18th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a ‘HyperClovaX Utilization Cooperation Project’ with Naver Cloud at the Smilegate headquarters.

The signing ceremony held on the 17th was attended by Han Woojin, Head of Smilegate AI Center, Han Daewoong, Director, Im Taegun, Executive Director of Naver Cloud, and Bae Juhwan, Director.

Through this agreement, Naver Cloud’s ‘HyperClovaX’ will be applied to various services of Smilegate AI Center. HyperClovaX is an ultra-large-scale artificial intelligence model designed to provide the most natural answers to users’ questions by learning a large volume of high-quality Korean language data.

Smilegate AI Center expects that this agreement will enable research on improving work productivity and streamlining game resource production using HyperClovaX. They also plan to carry out various projects such as advancing in-game NPCs (Non Player Characters, game characters not directly controlled by users) and metahuman development.

Im Taegun, Executive Director of Sales at Naver Cloud, said, “HyperClovaX will become the generative AI that best meets the demands of the gaming industry,” adding, “Through the cooperative project with Smilegate, which services the best games domestically and internationally, we will lead the AI market in the gaming industry.”

Han Woojin, Head of Smilegate AI Center, said, “We expect to further advance Smilegate’s various services by utilizing HyperClovaX, which is gaining global attention as a world-class AI service,” and added, “It will greatly help Smilegate AI Center showcase various AI services specialized in entertainment, which we pursue.”

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